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In Omaha James Roosevelt, eldest of the President's four sons, freely posed for newscameramen, told reporters: "I think my brother Frank is very foolish to be so camera shy." In circulation at the time was a photograph of Son James puffing a pipe-shaped cigar which its sponsors call a "cigapipe"' (see cut).
Visiting an R. O. T. C. camp at Baltimore's Fort Meade, Assistant Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring slept in a squad tent on an army cot canopied with mosquito netting. Said he: "I like to sleep out in the open again. When I was Governor of Kansas I'd always sleep in a tent while visiting the National Guard regiments."
Geraldine Farrar, motoring from Munich to the Salzburg Music Festival in Austria, was stopped at the frontier by German guards who refused to allow her German chauffeur to leave the country. Miss Farrar offered to pay the extortionate 1,000-mark fee for an Austrian visa for her chauffeur, was turned down. Leaving her car and driver at the border, she hiked five miles into Salzburg, arrived a little late for Beethoven's Fidelio.
The first thing Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, second son of the onetime Crown Prince of Germany, wanted to know when he stepped ashore in Manhattan: "How is the liquor situation here?" The next: "How is Sally Rand?" Then Prince Louis sped on to Chicago to see the Century of Progress.
In the Taylor Fork country of Montana, Robert Morgenthau, son of the Secretary of the Treasury, killed a 200-lb. grizzly bear.
At Bloomsburg, Pa. Airport, Gifford Pinchot Jr., son of the Governor of Pennsylvania, qualified for his amateur pilot's license.
On an inlet of the Potomac River opposite Washington, Raymond Ickes, son of the Secretary of the Interior, worked as foreman on a CCC project improving a wild duck pond.
From North Carolina State Prison at Raleigh, Luke Lea Jr., son of Convict No. 29,409, was paroled after serving eleven weeks of a two-to-six-year sentence for bank fraud.
"If England ever wants any more cowboys she'll have to raise 'em," angrily declared U. S. Rodeoist Tex Austin as he docked in Manhattan. He estimated that he had lost $200,000 on his show in London because the British Royal S.P.C.A. had him arrested for "terrifying" a steer, because fox-hunting Britons had boycotted his "refined rodeo."
Bound for the International Anti-Alcohol Congress in London, Bishop James Cannon Jr. docked at Plymouth, declared one bottle of whiskey. "For demonstration purposes only." he explained.